Tag: chance the rapper
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Catching Up On Submissions: Brill’s Latest Visual’s ‘Too Serious’ and ‘Envy Me (Remix)’ Add a New Layer to Chicago R&B
I was first introduced to Chicago vocalist Brill just under a year ago. At that point in time he had already worked with Taylor Bennett, Smino and a host of Chicago OG’s. His submission to the site came via Pineapples, a single off his upcoming debut album, and music video Liqour Talkin. I became convinced dude would hit the city hard…
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Mikeyy Austin – L I F T E D (New Album + Review)
It’s a rare occurrence when I listen to an album in full and call it beautiful. Hip hop can be a fickle genre with albums often sticking to one central sound. One of the most significant exceptions is Chance The Rapper’s Coloring Book, as it incorporated elements of gospel, the pains of drug abuse, features…
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Malcolm London – OPIA (New Album)
You know those albums that just make you feel good? It’s like sunlight in an otherwise stormy string of mixtapes, albums and tracks. Stormy in the sense of emotionless lyrics, booming production, and every song sounding the same. There is a big time and place for that (and as I’ve written before I’m very drawn to that…
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Most Played Chicago + Baltimore Songs (TheDemoTape + flowsfordays Collab)
Justice, the co-creator of influential blog The Demo Tape, hit me up a few days ago wanting to exchange some of our favorite music from our hometowns. He’s from Baltimore and I’m from Chicago. We decided to write a collaborative article on the songs we are bumping from artists out of our cities. For me…
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Exploring The History of Unique Voices In Hip Hop (Editorial)
Since the birth of hip hop in the late 70’s there have been a slew of artists with strong personalities. Taking it back to the mid/late 80’s we can look at Flavor Flav. Public Enemy was a revolutionary group for the genre of hip hop and music in general, but Flavor gave the group, well,…
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Renz Young – No Problem Freestyle (New Track)
I’ve never heard a freestyle to No Problem (Chance The Rapper’s track off of Coloring Book in case you’ve been in a far away place without internet for awhile). I honestly don’t know if I’d even give one a listen; but I took the chance with Renz Young. I am so glad I did. He…
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Weekly Industry Round Up (August 20th-27th)
We’ve got another series on our hands. Every week on Saturday or Sunday we’ll be rounding up the new songs released in the last week from the biggest names in hip hop. We aren’t big on posting music from signed artists here at flowsforday; my philosophy has always been to help the artists that truly need…
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